Adolf Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering (suspended between 1946 and 1952)
1949 - 1978
Max Bense Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Science
1957 - 1977
Käte Hamburger Professor of Literature and Aesthetics
1964
K II building opened Inauguration of the K II building in the city centre
1964 - 1990
Frei Otto Founder and head of the Institute for Light Two-Dimensional Structures (IL)
1967
Renamed Universität Stuttgart
1968
Higher Education Law
The differentiation within the university between the groups of professors, non-professorial staff and students is removed
Non-professorial staff and students are given decision-making rights
3 Faculties transformed into 19 Sections
1969
"Higher Education Plan I" Expansion of the university (in terms of student capacity), especially in the so-called "humanities mass subjects"
1972
"Higher Education Plan II" Proposed reorganisation of the Universität Stuttgart and subjects into three "university sectors" within Stuttgart (subdivided into subject areas). This plan was not put into effect.
1972 - 1993
Karl-Wolfgang Mundry Professor of Botany
1973
Amendment of the Higher Education Law Reduction of university autonomy
1976 - 1977
"Structural Plan"
shift from university expansion plans towards a cost-cutting policy
humanities are almost abolished (especially teaching qualification courses)
after fierce protests the continued existence of the humanities is ensured and only moderate cuts are made